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Article #83YAVB - yet another vi bug
From: Jordan Hayes
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1989 15:55
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1989 15:55
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Well, I can't really figure the exact cause of this one out (maybe one of you with source can tell us?), but when I have a large environment (random examples: more than 36 environment variables, or totalling more than about 1100 bytes worth [i.e., no "magic numbers" to recognize]), invoking vi gives "illegal instruction" ... More information: I ran trace on it, and there's a write() just before the core dump that goes to the bottom of the screen, inverts, and says "missing lhs", gets out of inverted and heads home. This happens just after stat()ing the .exrc file, so it must be at the point in the code where the $EXINIT variable is used ... Any ideas? /jordan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ginosko!uunet!mstan!jordan From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: YAVB - yet another vi bug Message-ID: <378@zooks.Morgan.COM> Date: 13 Sep 89 15:55:34 GMT Reply-To: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) Distribution: usa Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY Lines: 15